James Carville warns Democrats not to get too cocky about Kamala Harris: 'This is too triumphalist'

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After weeks of warning Democrats that the American people wanted something new in place of President Biden, campaign veteran James Carville cautioned them not to get cocky about their new choice.

After Biden stepped aside under pressure and Vice President Kamala Harris rapidly ascended to become the presumptive nominee, many Democrats had a noticeable honeymoon season over their new candidate, but Carville warned that it’s not time for them to celebrate just yet.

"I have to be the skunk at the garden party. This is too triumphalist, OK?" Carville said on MSNBC. "Everybody’s giddy. I look at the coverage and it’s great. If I had to write a play about what I think, it’d be entitled, ‘The Icepick Cometh,’ OK? Get ready, they’re coming. All right? And it’s good. Everybody should feel good and liberated and everything else. But if we don’t win the election, we haven’t done anything.

"This kind of giddy elation is not going to be very helpful much longer ’cause that’s not what we’re going to be faced with."

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Carville, known for masterminding Bill Clinton's 1992 election victory, made a boxing reference referring to the medical assistant who aids a boxer in breaks in a match.

"I think the Vice President, to put it in athletic terms, needs a really good cutman on the corner